The most “talked about” new feature in Firefox 4 Beta 2 is “App Tabs”, which looks like Google Chrome‘s “Pin Tab” feature. This “App Tabs” mode lets you keep an eye on sites you want to. Now, every tab in Firefox 4 has this new option “Make into App Tab,” on right-click to convert it into an “App Tab”.

Just like “Pin Tab” in Google Chrome, “App Tabs” reduces the normal tabs into the site’s favicon and places it to the leftmost side of the tabbar. Even though I couldn’t get App Tabs to re-appear when I relaunched Firefox, but Mozilla says they’ll stick, and show up in their own space.

Mozilla developers have also created a short video to show the new App Tab feature:

Whats new in Firefox 4 Beta 2?

• Firefox 4 Beta 2 is available in 24 languages.
• Tabs are now on top by default on Windows and OS X - Linux will be changing when the theme has been modified to support the change.
• You can turn any tab into an “App Tab” by right-clicking on it and selecting “Make into App Tab” from the context menu.
• Web developers can animate content using CSS Transitions.
• Responsiveness and scrolling improvements from the new retained layers layout system.
• JavaScript speed improvements due to engine optimizations.
• Changes to how XPCOM components are registered to help startup time and process separation.
• See the complete changelog from the earlier beta.

This Firefox 4 Beta is considered to be stable and safe to use for daily web browsing, though the features and content may change before the final product release. At this time many Add-ons may not yet have been tested by their authors to ensure that they are compatible with this release.

You can download it using following link:

[ Download Mozilla Firefox 4 Beta 2 ]

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By the tag “Ultimate” in Daniusoft Video Converter Ultimate, you can easily understand that it is not just another video converter out there. It comes geared with up to 6+ independent components, like Video Converter, DVD Ripper, DRM Removal, DVD Burner, Device Transfer, YouTube Downloader. All this is packed in a neat package whose download size is only 22 MB approx.

Daniusoft Video Converter Ultimate comes with fully loaded support for a number of video formats. You will find support from the standard formats like AVI, MP4, MPEG, MOV and MKV to HD video formats like HD AVI(VC-1, MPEG-4), and MTS/M2TS/TS/TRP (AVHD H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2 HD). The audio formats supported by Daniusoft Video Converter Ultimate is also fully loaded.

On the main screen of Daniusoft Video Converter Ultimate, you just have to drag and drop the videos, select the format into which you want to convert the video, then click on the big Start button (on the bottom right) to start the conversion, while you sit back and enjoy a cup of coffee.

Alternatively, you can also manually add the video/audio files or get it to read directly from a DVD and rip it to your desired video/audio format. You can also add the URL of a video file, get it to download the videos (from YouTube or any other video sites) and add them list of files to be converted. You can also merge all files into a single file.

The software supports a lot of mobile devices too and have custom profiles for some of the popular mobile devices. Device support includes products from Apple which includes the latest iPhone 4, iPhone 4 HD, iPad, iPad HD, HTC, Motorola, Nokia, Blackberry, Microsoft Zune, Archos, Creative ZEN, SanDisk Sansa, and other popular mobile devices including Android models, gaming devices that includes PSP, PS3, PS3 HD, Xbox 360, Xbox 360 HD, Wii, NDS, and portable media players.

If you want to convert and transfer songs from your PC to your mobile device and is not sure what audio or video formats are supported by your device, simple select your mobile device model from the list of output formats and the software will take care of the rest. It can also transfer your songs to your iPod, iPhone, Zune, PSP, Blackberry, Nokia, etc.

Daniusoft Video Converter Ultimate also includes a DVD authoring part, but it lacks many important features. You cannot set chapters, manually set the bit rate, etc. apart from choosing one of the predefined profiles available.

Lots of people search the Internet for “How to remove DRM from your Audio/Video files”. The good news for those people is Daniusoft Video Converter Ultimate comes with a DRM removal part that can remove the DRM license from the files, that includes iTunes “Fair Use” .m4p music .m4v video .m4b audiobook, or the “Play for Sure” of Windows Media protected .wma .wmv files, or even BBC iPlayer WMV, Audible Audiobook AA. Similarly, it supports easily ripping CSS copy protected DVDs.

One thing that I will like the developers to look seriously into is the video conversion process. In my test, I tried to convert a HD music video which was around 90 MB in size into MKV format (using the normal video quality). Before conversion, Daniusoft Video Converter Ultimate predicted the size of the converted file to be around 50 MB. But, I was really surprised to find the size of the converted video to be around 400 MB after completion of the task! This is something the developers should really fix.

Daniusoft Video Converter Ultimate also comes with a very basic video editor. You can use this video editor to trim videos, crop videos, adjust image quality like brightness, contrast, saturation and apply fancy effects like embossed, negative, and old film and watermark.

It also comes with a video cutter, using which you can obviously cut videos.

Verdict:

Daniusoft Video Converter Ultimate does have its own share of good and bad features, but overall Daniusoft Video Converter Ultimate is a good multimedia software that consists of a lot of additional features other than being just a video converter.

For:

• Wide support of around 150+ audio/video formats.
• Custom profiles for many popular mobile devices, gaming devices and portable media players.
• Apple iTunes not needed for transferring songs to iPod, iPhone, and other Apple products.
• Removes DRM from media files that includes “Fair Use”, “Play for Sure”, etc. DRM protections.
• Multithreaded technology that helps in toughest computing tasks like Hi-Def video encoding for sharing on DVD.
• Easy to use video editor and video cutter utilities.

Against:

• YouTube Downloader not working.
• Lack of features in the DVD authoring part.
• Some bugs in video conversion.

Daniusoft Video Converter Ultimate License Giveaway

We have 5 licenses of Daniusoft Video Converter Ultimate, each of which retails for $59.95 courtesy Daniusoft. We are going to give these away to 5 lucky persons selected by a random draw. If you are interested in winning one, simply become our subscriber, and just leave your name and email address (used for subscription) in the comment form below and hope for the best.

Daniusoft is offering support for My Technology Guide readers through its Facebook Page. If you have any queries related to Daniusoft Video Converter Ultimate, you can ask your question.

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For any die-hard music-aficionado who loves to listen to music and cannot compromise with quality, can never forgive a player that doesn’t comes with an equalizer preset. If you are a music lover who don’t likes to compromise with music and likes to have equalizer presets for fine tuning his music, there’s a simple trick to import the Winamp equalizer presets into your Audacious, BMP, XMMS, etc Linux music players.

Simply follow the steps below:

Run the following commands one by one in your terminal and you will have the equalizer presets of Winamp in your favorite Linux music player.

Step 1: Download the Winamp equalizer presets using the following command in your terminal:

wget http://www.beastwithin.org/users/wwwwolf/code/xmms/winamp_presets.gz

Step 2: Import the downloaded Winamp equalizer presets into Audacious, BMP, and XMMS respectively using the commands as follows:

gunzip -c winamp_presets.gz > ~/.config/audacious/eq.preset
gunzip -c winamp_presets.gz > ~/.bmp/eq.preset
gunzip -c winamp_presets.gz > ~/.xmms/eq.preset

In case you don’t need all of them or haven’t installed any of the above mentioned player then you don’t have to run the command for that player. For example, if you don’t have BMP installed in your machine, then you don’t have to execute the command gunzip -c winamp_presets.gz > ~/.bmp/eq.preset into your terminal.

Enjoy your music and don’t forget to tell us about your experience using equalizer presets in Linux music players!

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Mozilla has now done a quick update of Firefox 3.6.7 to Firefox 3.6.8, which according to The Mozilla Developer Center blog, “fixes a single stability problem that affected some pages with embedded plugins”.

One of the best way to protect yourself from online threats like phishing, click-jacking, etc. is to make sure that your web browser is always up to date with the most current software released. In Mozilla Firefox, you can use the inbuilt update check function. Click on the “Check for updates…” link in the Help menu in Firefox for updates.

Users can also visit the official site of Firefox by going to mozilla.com or firefox.com and clicking on the big green button in the middle of the screen that says “Firefox 3.6 Free Download“. You can also download Firefox 3.6.8 directly using the following direct download links:

[ Download Link (For Windows) , Download Link (For Mac OS X) , Download Link (For Linux) ]

[ Firefox 3.6.8 Release Notes ]

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To take part in those giveaways, all you had to do was subscribe to our site updates and comment in the respective giveaway pages. The last date for participating in the giveaways was July 20, 2010 (12:00 pm, GMT -7), which is over now. Today, we will announce the winners of these three giveaways.

But before announcing the winners, We would like to thank Emsi Software GmbH, Rapidsolution Software and Codyssey for providing us with the free licenses for the giveaways. As usual, we used Random.org’s List Randomizer service to decide the winners. You can watch the video (Adobe Flash required) of each draw below. If you cannot see your email in the draw, it will be either because you never confirmed our subscription or you never subscribed to our email updates. Now, without wasting any more time, here comes the results!

Emsisoft Anti-Malware 5 Giveaway Winners

1. Nature
2. aungzeya38
3. Cappydawg
4. Ansuman Mahanty
5. deanxx

Mediaraptor Platinum 4 Giveaway Winners

1. malkhaz
2. ded
3. ibheck
4. bethel95
5. Suhan
6. amon
7. John
8. paf
9. Damian
10. Kishore Bongirwar

CodySafe Sigma Giveaway Winners

1. ibheck
2. ROHIT
3. jon
4. Adrian
5. vhick
6. Rofy
7. Diane
8. k19s
9. dun
10. kezako
11. Cappydawg
12. corker
13. Bionic
14. Lee
15. azziz

Congratulations to all the winners and thanks to all the participants for making the giveaways successful. Don’t be sad if you haven’t won this time, as we are planning our next giveaway soon!

Winners will receive their free licenses within 7 days. The reason for the delay is because of the number of licenses that we have to send and also we have to take care that the correct person, receives the correct license of the product they have won, and we don’t want any mis-matches here! Hope you can understand the cause of the delay in sending the licenses this time. Even after seven days, if for some reason, you don’t receive your license, then please send us an email to or just comment below, asap.

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New features in the beta of Microsoft Security Essentials include:

Windows Firewall integration – During setup, Microsoft Security Essentials will now ask if you would like to turn the Windows Firewall on or off.

Enhanced protection for web-based threats – Microsoft Security Essentials now integrates with Internet Explorer to provide protection against web-based threats.

New protection engine – The updated anti-malware engine offers enhanced detection and cleanup capabilities with better performance.

Network inspection system – Protection against network-based exploits is now built-in to Microsoft Security Essentials.

If you are interested in testing the beta version, click here to visit the Microsoft Connect page to register for the beta and then download it. Please note that this is a limited beta available in English (U.S.), Israel, and Brazilian Portuguese (the beta will also be available in China in Simplified Chinese later this year) and is available to genuine Windows users on a first come, first serve basis until the allotted spots for the beta have been reached.

Since, Microsoft Security Essentials beta is available to a limited number of users on a first-come, first-serve basis, so if you’re interested, we’d suggest you get it while it’s hot. It is available for both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows versions.

Note: If you are having issues downloading the Microsoft Security Essentials beta after signing into Microsoft Connect, you can use the file transfer manager within Microsoft Connect to download the beta files.

To download using the file transfer manager, after logging into the Microsoft Connect site for the Microsoft Security Essentials beta, simply click on “Download Microsoft Security Essentials Beta”, then select the version of Microsoft Security Essentials beta that is right for you (32 or 64 bit), and then click the Download button (Download selected file(s) using FTM).

[via Windows Team Blog]

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EasyBCD is one such freeware utility available for the Windows platform, that helps you to take control of your boot loader easily. EasyBCD lets you customize your Windows Vista or Windows 7 boot loader settings easily. Using EasyBCD, setting up and configuring dual-boot or multi-boot options between Windows 7, Windows Vista, older editions of Windows like Windows XP & Windows 2003, Linux distros like Ubuntu, BSD, and even Apple Mac OS X is an easy task.

The user interface of the application is very easy to use and neatly laid down. You can easily create, edit or delete boot loader entries. You can also edit the boot menu, the menu which is shown when you boot your PC. The latest version of EasyBCD has all the bug fixes and now completely supports Windows 7.

Features of EasyBCD:

• Boot into XP/Vista/7/Ubuntu/OS X
• Boot from USB, Network, ISO images, Virtual Hard disks (VHD), WinPE
• Repair the Windows bootloader, change your boot drive, create a bootable USB
• Rename entries, set default boot target, change BCD timeout, hide the boot menu
• Create your own custom boot sequence, hide drives on boot, backup and restore configurations

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Norman Security Suite 8 DnBNOR Special Edition does have some limitations. Features like Intrusion Guard, Privacy Tools and AntiSpam are disabled from this special edition, but users will have the standard Antivirus, Anti-spyware, Norman Personal Firewall and Parental Control features for free which is valid for 4 years. The offer page can be found here.

Features:

• Protect your PC from malware like viruses, spyware, etc.
• Protection against new and unknown malware
• Block viruses from entering via email and IM
• Scanning scheduler
• Screensaver with malware scanner
• Personal firewall inspect incoming and outgoing traffic from your computer, stop attacks from infected websites
• Parental Control prevents access to inappropriate websites
• Real content control on websites
• Set individual access profiles for different users
• Time limit kids access to internet

Norman Security Suite 8 supports Windows XP SP2 and Windows 7, and is available for both 32-bit and 64-bit edition of the operating systems.

Note (from the offer page):

Important information regarding technical support!

Note!
This software does not include free-of-charge technical support from Norman.
However, you can get technical support assistance by calling 820 900 90. For this service you will charged NOK 26 per minute.

Direct Download the installer from the links below:

• Norman Security Suite for 32 bits operating system
• Norman Security Suite for 64 bits operating system

[via TWC ]

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Users will not be able to upgrade directly from SP1 Beta to the final version of Windows 7 SP1. So, if a user installs SP1 Beta, then they will have to first uninstall it before installing SP1 final. If Windows 7 SP1 Beta uninstall routine fails, then the user has to do a clean install of Windows 7, which no user will like. Anyways, Microsoft has provided a simple guide on how to uninstall and remove Windows 7 SP1 Beta and revert back to the RTM build.

Windows 7 SP1 Beta do creates backup files that are needed for uninstalling SP1 Beta later. But, if a user uses Disk Cleanup Wizard, the backup files needed to uninstall SP1 Beta might get deleted. Then the only option to remove SP1 Beta will be through the System Restore utility.

This uninstall process of SP1 applies both to Windows 7 SP1 Beta and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Beta.

How to Uninstall Windows 7 SP1 Beta or Windows Server 2008 SP1 Beta?

Uninstall SP1 Beta using Programs and Features:

• Click on the Start button (Start Orb), now click on Control Panel.
• Next, click on Programs, and then click Programs and Features.
• Click on View installed updates.
• Select Service Pack for Microsoft Windows (KB 976932) from the list of installed updates displayed and then click Uninstall.

  If you don’t see Service Pack for Microsoft Windows (KB 976932) in the list of installed updates, or if the uninstall option is disabled, then you have to use the System Restore utility (see third method below) to uninstall the service pack.

Uninstall SP1 Beta using the Command Prompt:

• Click on the Start button.
• In the search box, type command prompt or cmd.
• In the list of results displayed, right-click on Command Prompt, and select the Run as administrator option. If you’re prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.
• Type the following command at the command prompt:

  wusa.exe /uninstall /kb:976932

• Press Enter to continue uninstalling.

Uninstall SP1 Beta using System Restore utility:

• Click on the Start button.
• In the search box, type System Restore.
• From the list of results displayed, click on System Restore
• Now in the System Restore utility click on Next.
• Choose a restore point that matches the installation date for the service pack.

  Restore point will be either labeled as Install: Windows Update or Install: Windows 7 Service Pack 1.

• Verify the restore point, and then click on the Finish button.

The only disadvantage of using the System Restore utility to remove SP1 Beta is it will also remove programs and revert system changes made since the installation of the service pack.

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Please help us out by letting us know in the comments if you find anything not working and we’ll squash all the bugs asap! We would of course also like to listen to your opinion about the new theme.

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For eliminating this disadvantage, many developers came up with portable application launchers that works and looks like Windows Start Menu. CodySafe Sigma is one such application launcher menu for the portable apps installed on your USB flash drive. It offers many features normally not found in any other portable apps launchers. The icing on the cake? The developer has generously offered a discount coupon code to My Technology Guide readers as well as 15 free licenses for CodySafe Sigma, you can find the details about this giveaway at the end of this article.

After installing CodySafe Sigma on your USB flash drive, you will find a small icon  in the system tray that allow easy access to the menu. It runs automatically if you have autoplay enabled in your computer.

As you can see, in Windows 7 and Vista, the menu fully supports Windows Aero. It looks like the Windows Start menu, but only provides quick access to portable apps, file and folders stored on your portable device. It also shows the drive letter assigned to the portable device and the amount of disk space used along with the total amount of disk space.

One of the most notable features of CodySafe Sigma is its ability to download and install your choice of portable apps directly from within the menu. You have to simply click on the Apps Depot button on the menu, browse through the categories of applications and click on the install button to install it in your portable apps directory.

From simple accessories, to web browsers, to security apps, to games, to image editors and many more, you can easily have every app you need easily.

In the CodySafe Control Panel, accessible via the Options button in the CodySafe Sigma menu, you can can find different system settings, that controls how CodySafe Sigma behaves.

You can also change the language, check the drive integrity using Drive Doctor, setup Hot Keys, change CodySafe Sigma Themes, add or remove portable apps using the Applications Manager, and setup Find-If-Lost, that will help somebody return your USB drive to you if it gets lost.

The Device Doctor function includes autorun virus protection (ViruSense) which includes real-time monitoring feature with automatic scan. It can also automatically fix disk errors, and, scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors on manual scans.

The Application Manager offers many features for easy application management, addition of new applications, autorun management and also offers scripts feature.

You can download and add different CodySafe Sigma themes to customize CodySafe Sigma further. But, it would have been great if CodySafe would have released information on creating your own personalized themes.

CodySafe Sigma is a commercial paid software. It costs $9.90, but we think that the price is very reasonable for the additional features that it provides. The developers also offers a free version of CodySafe Sigma named as CodySafe Free which you can download from here. You can compare between the different versions of CodySafe and decide for yourself, which one will be suitable for you. The developers are also working on CodySafe Protect which is in beta version now and you can help the developers by downloading and testing the beta version for free and providing them with your feedback.

We found CodySafe Sigma as an excellent product that simply works great and offers great features. You can also download a free demo to test it yourself and see if it suites you.

CodySafe Sigma Discount Coupon

The developer has offered My Technology Guide readers a sweet irresistible deal. Simply enter this coupon code:

PoJGds32d

And get 15% off when you use it at the check out while buying CodySafe Sigma license.

CodySafe Sigma Giveaway

We would like to thank Eugene of Codyssey for providing us with 15 full version license keys of CodySafe Sigma, to be given away to the readers of My Technology Guide.

To win, simply, subscribe us and write a comment below, telling us which is your favorite portable app. Don’t forget to enter your correct e-mail address that you used to subscribe us, in the contact form so that we can send you the license key, if you are one of the winner.

You can take part in this giveaway until July 20, 2010 (12:00 pm, GMT -7).

The winners will be randomly picked and announced on July 21, 2010, the same day when we will announce the winners of Emsisoft Anti-Malware 5 giveaway (expired) and Mediaraptor Platinum 4 giveaway (expired).

Also, take part in our other giveaways:

• Emsisoft Anti-Malware 5 giveaway (expired)
• Mediaraptor Platinum 4 giveaway (expired)

For participating in our latest giveaways, click here.

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This service pack is also offered via Windows Update and in standard ISO image format, which is around 1.2 GB in size and required to be burned to a DVD first to use it.

Note: Users will be reminded beginning March 30, 2011 about the expiration of SP1 beta. The beta will expire on June 30, 2011. After the expiration, users will have to then either upgrade to a newer build or uninstall and return to the RTM build by that time. Please read the FAQ over at Microsoft which answers common questions related to SP1.

Executing the download enables the system to receive the Service Pack 1 Beta via Windows Update. It can take a while before the update shows in Windows Update. Windows 7 users who chooses to install SP1 beta via Windows Update will notice that the download size is between 45 MB to 600 MB, which is very less when compared to the standard ISO image size.

Free documentation provided by Microsoft that will come handy when deploying the SP1 beta:

• Deployment Guide for Windows Server 2008 R2 with SP1 and Windows 7 with SP1
• Documentation for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 Beta (KB976932)

Windows 7 Service Pack 1 beta does not add new features to the operating system. It will consist of updates that are already available through Microsoft Windows Update and some more hotfixes based on the feedback provided by the customers and partners. Hence, we will recommend users not to install the SP1 beta and wait until the final service pack 1 is released before upgrading.

Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 beta, however, consists of two new features:

Dynamic memory: An enhancement to Hyper-V in R2. It allows IT administrators to pool all the memory available on a physical host and dynamically distribute it to virtual machines running on that host as necessary. That means based on changes in workload, VM will be able to receive new memory allocations without a service interruption.

RemoteFX: RemoteFX describes a set of rich media capabilities that are available to customers using the Remote Desktop Services platform to deploy a virtual machine- or session-based remote desktop infrastructure. Specifically, RemoteFX enhances the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) in Remote Desktop Services, so that remote workers can access any type of application or screen content, including rich media and 3D applications, improving end-user productivity.

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It is a very simple trick and disables flash completely 100% in Chrome web browser.

Simply follow these simple steps below:

1. Open Google Chrome web browser and in a new tab, type about:plugins and press [Enter].

2. Now you can see Google Chrome’s Plug-ins manager.

3. Here find Shockwave Flash, Shockwave for Director, and Shockwave Flash and click on the Disable link for each of them.

   

   

4. The effects of this can be see instantly and you don’t have to restart your Chrome web browser. See below, I opened a video in YouTube and it displays the message “You need to upgrade your Adobe Flash Player to watch this video. Download it from Adobe.“

   

Do you use any other tricks or plugins to disable flash in Google Chrome web browser? Share below about it using comments.

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We thought we’ll do our part here by providing the soccer fans with a list of the 10 best sites where they could watch the free live video streaming of the FIFA World Cup 2010 final match between Netherlands and Spain. Check them out yourself!

1. ESPN3, a part of ESPN, is also offering online viewers a chance to watch the final World Cup match. But, it is available only for certain Internet Service Providers subscribers.
2. Justin.TV is a very well-known site for live streaming. FIFA World Cup Soccer fans can watch the live telecast of the final match in HD.
3. Ustream is the next in our list and it has a HD channel for FIFA World Cup 2010 too.
4. Iraq Goals is a good site that is having a lot of streaming channels for the final match.
5. From Sport has various sports channels. It streams football, tennis, golf and other sports and caters a variety of viewers. Soccer fans can view the Football channel by clicking on the Football link in the site’s Main Menu bar.
6. TV Bunch is another very good site that caters the interest of many sports viewers along with soccer.
7. First Row is another good site for live free streaming of soccer matches on which you can rely on for high quality streams of the final match.
8. Sina is a Chinese site that provides videos, news of the event, details of players, news and some other information about the FIFA World Cup.
9. Univision Football is a another good alternative site for watching World Cup 2010 final match.
10. In Atdhe.net, simply click on the Live Sports link and you will be able to watch the FIFA World Cup final when it actually begins.

Hope this list comes handy for all the FIFA World Cup 2010 soccer fans out there!

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On starting Mediaraptor, you will find the user interface quite similar as seen in Tunebite, Radiotracker, and the ultimate of them all, AudialsOne, divided into two parts.

On the left, you can search for the artists whose songs you want to convert and save the files and Mediaraptor will automatically fetch and tag your files correctly from the Internet. You can also create a Wishlist to simultaneously watch a thousands of internet radio stations. You can also record media content directly from the browser as you surf the media sources.

On the right, you will find an in-built media player to play your recorded media, that also displays you lyrics, cover art and other details. You can easily burn your media files to a CD, create ringtones for your phone, and export the file to play in an external player like Winamp, iTunes and Windows Media Player. You can also synchronize your portable media players.

You will also find the Organize feature that we have seen in the other products of Audials. When you click on Organize you will be able to manage your music and video collection present on the computer easily. You can reorganize all your media files with just a few clicks. You can easily add correct ID3 tags, cover album, song lyrics, and other details to your existing media collection.

Mediaraptor is the best app for the music lovers to fill up their hard drive with tons of music and videos downloaded straight from the social media sources, and organize them too.

Unfortunately, there is a bit of legal ambiguity when using Mediaraptor. Mediaraptor is a very powerful app and it’s ability to find MP3 files that others may have illegally posted to social network sites is the main cause of concern here. You can be safe if you keep in mind while using Mediaraptor that even though it may find these illegal MP3 files too while searching, but you’re not supposed to download those files to your own PC. To stay on the right side of the law, just use Mediaraptor to grab the official music videos from places like YouTube and ignore the MP3 side of this app. For more information about the legal aspects of using Mediaraptor, please read here.

Mediaraptor is available in three versions:

• Mediaraptor Free that can record up to 40 tracks or videos per session and convert them to MP3 or WMV, respectively. You can use it for free without registration.
• Mediaraptor Premium which can grab an unlimited amount of music from social media sites and video clips from places like YouTube and retails for $27.
• Mediaraptor Platinum that can do targeted searches and multiple file format conversions, available for $40.
• Finally, if you want the joint functionality of Radiotracker, Tunebite and Mediaraptor, you should go for AudialsOne, retails for $60.

How to win a free license of Mediaraptor Platinum 4 worth $40?

Rapidsolution Software has been very kind to sponsor 10 Mediaraptor Platinum licenses to be given away at this blog. Its simple and the same rule applies like our previous giveaways and our present running giveaway of Emsisoft Anti-Malware 5.

First you just need to be a subscriber of this blog and secondly, leave a comment on this page using the same email address used for subscription.

You can take part in this giveaway until July 20, 2010 (12:00 pm, GMT -7). The winners will be randomly picked and announced on July 21, 2010, the same day when we will announce the winners of Emsisoft Anti-Malware 5 giveaway.

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To change your boring plain text signature into rich text signature, simply login and click on “Settings” and scroll down to the “Signature” section. You’ll see a new signature editor that has the same functions when you compose an e-mail.

What’s even better than being able to use rich text signatures is that you can now use a different signature for each custom “From:” address you use. So, if you have more than one e-mail address associated with your Gmail account, you’ll be now able to choose a different signature for each one using the drop-down menu (Note: You will not see the menu, if you have only one e-mail address associated with your Gmail account).

Remember, if you want to use these cool new features, then you will have to use the rich version of Gmail. Lite version of Gmail, that is, the HTML and mobile versions of Gmail do not have any support for these two features. A plan text version of your primary account’s signature will continue to be used on these other versions of Gmail.

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To use this app, you just have to download it from his website door2windows and save it to a location on your hard drive. The download size of the app is amazingly only 441 KB for the ZIP version and 896 KB for the EXE version. After saving it, just run the app with Administrator rights and click on the Remove Start Menu User Picture button.

You will now find your Start Menu is not showing your User picture. If you want to revert back the settings, then simply click on the Add Start Menu User Picture button.

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A second major change that cannot go undetected is the addition of the Firefox button on Windows Vista and Windows 7 that replaces the menu bar, and looks very similar to the One button present in Opera web browser. It will be shown if the user decides to hide the menu bar in the browser.

Other notable changes are as follows:

• You can search for and switch to already open tabs in the Smart Location Bar
• New Addons Manager and extension management API (UI will be changed before final release)
• Significant API improvements are available for JS-ctypes, a foreign function interface for extensions.
• The stop and reload buttons have been merged into a single button on Windows, Mac and Linux.
• The Bookmarks Toolbar has been replaced with a Bookmarks Button by default (you can switch it back if you’d like).
• Crash protection for Windows, Linux, and Mac when there is a crash in the Adobe Flash, Apple Quicktime or Microsoft Silverlight plugins.
• CSS Transitions are partially supported.
• Full WebGL support is included but disabled by default at this time.
• Core Animation rendering model for plugins on Mac OS X. Plugins which also support this rendering model can now draw faster and more efficiently.
• Native support for the HD HTML5 WebM video format.
• An experimental Direct2D rendering backend is available on Windows, turned off by default.
• Web developers can use Websockets for a low complexity, low latency, bidirectional communications API.
• Web developers can update the URL field without reloading the page using HTML History APIs.
• More responsive page rendering using lazy frame construction.
• Link history lookup is done asynchronously to provide better responsiveness during pageload.
• CSS :visited selectors have been changed to block websites from being able to check a user’s browsing history.
• New HTML5 parser.
• Support for more HTML5 form controls.

Users can views a WebM video about the new release here. Interested users can read about the release notes of Firefox 4.0 beta 1 here.

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We recently took Emsisoft Anti-Malware 5 for a test ride and quite satisfied with its detection rate, you can read the full Emsisoft Anti-Malware 5 review here. Even though it does come up with false positives, but Emsisoft’s Anti-Malware Network feature helps you take the correct decision and exclude the false positive detection from being further flagged as a threat.

How can I be eligible for the giveaway and win a license?

Update: We have concluded that the total points concept was very confusing for everyone, so we have decided to stick to our good old KISS concept, that we applied in our previous giveaway!

1. Subscribe to My Technology Guide Newsletter which is free. You can subscribe to it using the Subscribe form given in the sidebar or using following direct link:

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If you are already a subscriber, then just use the same subscribed email address to comment below and have a chance to win a free license of Emsisoft Anti-Malware 5. You don’t have to subscribe again!

P.S. Don’t forget to confirm your subscription by clicking on the verification email sent from Feedburner when you subscribe. If your subscription is incomplete and not confirmed you will not be eligible for the giveaway.

2. Leave a comment below. While leaving your comment, make sure to use the same email address which you registered for My Technology Guide email newsletter, otherwise you won’t be eligible for the giveaway.

You can take part in this giveaway until July 20, 2010 (12:00 pm, GMT -7). Winners will be decided and declared on July 21, 2010.

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Before announcing the giveaway we reviewed Tunebite Platinum 7, you can read the review and download a free demo version of Tunebite Platinum 7 from here: TuneBite: Record your Favorite FIFA World Cup Football 2010 Videos.

We then used Random.org to decide the winner of this contest, following are 3 lucky winners:

1. corker
2. jon
3. Bionic

This time to get the license the winners have to respond to our email that we have sent them within 7 days. If we don’t receive any response back from the winner, the next person in the list will get the license.

Congratulations to all lucky subscribers who won the Tunebite Platinum 7 license! You should have received an email from us by now. For those that did not win, please don’t be disappointed because we have some very good commercial softwares for our next giveaways.

Download the setup from the link here, after installation, just paste the license to activate your Tunebite Platinum edition.

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